The Supreme Council for Antiquities started construction works on the first ever museum on Egyptian deserts sciences and prehistoric monuments in Al-Dakhleh oasis of the New Valley.

Farouk Hosni Culture Minister said the museum is to be built with the aid of the German government.

Secretary General of the Supreme Council for Antiquities Zahi Hawass said the museum will be named after late archaeologist Ahmad Fakhri.

The museum will contain guidelines for monuments in the western desert such locations are situated in the Al-Gilf Al-Kebir area and that they lacked protection as it is difficult to reach them.

One of the tourist expeditions in the area destroyed rare wall paintings of King Khufu, that is why we have to issue guidelines in the new museum for tourists to avoid destruction of such antiquities, he added.

First museum on prehistoric monuments in al-Dakhleh oasis, Egypt State Information Service, Egypt, June 05, 2007.

The new issue of KMT is out now. A summary of its contents appears below.

• 'NEFER: The Woman in Ancient Egypt'
  by Lucy Gordan-Rastelli. Blockbuster show in Milan & Turin.
• 125 & Still Counting
  by Aidan Dodson. Work of the Egypt Exploration Society.
• Embalming Caches in the Valley of the Kings
  by Dylan Bickerstaffe. KV63 Is Not Unique, After All.
• Karnak's Vanishing Monument
  by Dennis Forbes. Reliefs of the 3rd Intermediate / Late Period Chapel of Osiris Heqadjet Are Melting Away.
• 'Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs'
  by Bob Brier. Behind the Scenes of the Making of an IMAX Film.
• Mystery of a Sphinx & Four Pyramids in Ohio
  by Earl L. Ertman. Analysing an Egyptianising "Modern" Relic.

KMT, KMT Communications Inc., Sebastopol, California, USA, Volume 18, Number 2, Summer 2007.

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The latest issue of Current World Archaeology is out now and contains A few articles of interest to Egyptophiles.

• News: All made-up
  
  Canopic Jars of Rameses II neither Canopic nor Rameses' but ordinary cosmetic containers. (1 page)
• News: All Change
  
  Coin shows Cleopatra was no beauty. (1 page)
• Gurob: The key to unlocking a royal harem?
  
  Ian Shaw reports on his excavations at the ‘harem’ site of Gurob in the Fayoum, Egypt. (8 pages)
• Books: Off the shelf
  
  Review of by John Ray. (1 page)

Current World Archaeology, Think Publishing, London, UK, Volume 2, No. 11, Issue 23, June / July 2007.

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Egyptians are warm, hospitable people. They invite you into their homes, either kiss you on both cheeks or shake your hand and immediately offer you refreshments. Contrary to what we’re told in the US, Egyptians and people from many other Arab countries don’t hate or want to harm Americans; they abhor the Bush regime, in particular, and the Washington imperialists, in general...

The piece then goes on through 9/11, President Anwar Sadat, President Hosni Mubarak, Hosni's son Gamal, baksheesh, all the way to how much a maid earns a month.

Egypt, a vibrant land of contrasts and contradictions. Part 3: People, politics and economics, Bev Conover, Online Journal, June 05, 2007.

Previously:

Egypt, a vibrant land of contrasts and contradictions. Part 2: Cairo and Alexandria, June 05, 2007.

Egypt, a vibrant land of contrasts and contradictions. Part 1: Getting there, June 05, 2007.